Judge teaches convict a lesson
February 13, 2008
A man who was charged with illegal possession of ganja was sentenced to 10 days, imprisonment when he appeared in the Port Maria Resident Magistrat's Court last Thursday.
The accused, Ricardo Sinclair, resident of Galina district in St Mary, was arrested and charged during a police operation in the community last week. Reports are that at about 4:30 p.m. on February 1, the Port Maria police were on an operation in the area when Sinclair was stopped and searched. Items of vegetable matter were found on his person.
Further inspections reveal that it was ganja weighing about an ounce. Sinclair was arrested and charged.
When the accused made his appearance in court today, further checks by the court reveal that he had been arrested on similar charges. This upset Resident Magistrate Cressencia Brown who spared no time in sentencing the accused. She stated, "Who cyaan hear must feel. Ten days' imprisonment for you, maybe that will teach you a lesson."
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
